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Photography Quotes
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop."
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
Ansel Adams
"Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art."
"A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture."
Andreas Feininger
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Haas
"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools."
"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
"A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos."
Henri Cartier Bresson
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Ambrose Bierce
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technicque, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
Man Ray
"If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry."
Ruth Bernhard
"Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a pene- trating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity."
Berenice Abbott
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